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A Cornell alumna says the hotel school aided her journey to appearing on this season’s BBC’s The Apprentice. | Page 3

Stephen Meisel ’18 examines trigger warnings in the context of free speech and Pussy Riot. | Page 6

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S.A.Okays $0.30 Per Student Cinema Funding Hike Advocates say cinema still faces major financial strain

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cates Douglas McLaren ’05 (left) and Elijah Weber-Han ’16 (right) speak at the Student Assembly Meeting Thursday.

By BRIAN ENG Sun Contributor

The Student Assembly voted 18-3-0 to increase student activity fee allocations to Cornell Cinema by $0.30 per student Thursday, overturning the Appropriations Committee’s recommendation that the cinema should not receive an increase in activity fee allocations.

With the funding increase, Cornell Cinema will now receive allocations of $10.90 per student from the student activity fee.

However, the $0.30 per student increase is still far lower than the $1.40 per student funding increase that Cornell Cinema has applied for, and proponents of the cinema said that the cinema will still face considerable financial strain even with the increase in allocations.

Several passionate Cinema supporters held signs in support of increasing cinema funding and spoke to the S.A. about the importance of preserving culture and arts on campus at the meeting.

Debating with members of the Appropriations Committee, Douglas McLaren ’05, manager of Cornell Cinema, explained how his experiences at Cornell Cinema as an undergraduate inspired him to pursue a master’s degree in film preservation.

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Prof to Address Trustees on Fossil Fuel Divestment

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Prof. David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, will give a presentation urging the Board of Trustees to divest the University’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry next Friday during the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting.

Speaking on behalf of sponsors from all five shared governance assemblies that had passed resolutions calling for divestment, Shalloway said he will make the case that divestment from fossil fuels goes beyond environmental concerns and addresses the nature of shared governance itself.

The presentation marks the latest step in an effort toward divestment that began over two years ago when the Student Assembly passed a resolution in February of 2013 calling for

divestment.

Since the passing of the 2013 resolution, the Faculty Senate, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Employee Assembly and the University Assembly have all passed their own resolutions calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels. The University Assembly most recently passed its resolution in April last year.

With the number of resolutions calling for divestment from fossil fuels, Shalloway said he believed the Board of Trustees should hear his presentation as a joint call from the entire shared governance organization.

“This unanimity of campus constituencies, as voiced through their elected representatives, is unprecedented in Cornell's history,” Shalloway said. “If shared governance is to have any real meaning, this unanimous decision should be

respected.”

In addition to the presentation Shalloway will give, he will also introduce a signed letter to the Board of Trustees. As of Thursday afternoon, the letter had gained approximately 400 signatures from students, faculty, staff and other members of the Cornell community, according to Jeffrey Bergfalk grad, an organizer of the signature drive for the letter.

The divestment resolutions passed by all the assemblies within the shared governance system have called for Cornell to divest from 100 coal and 100 oil and gas companies holding the largest fossil fuel reserves, according to Shalloway. The resolutions have called for this commitment to be done over the course of 20 years, to accompany See DIVESTMENT page 5

Mental Health Awareness Week Kicks Off, Aims to Stomp Out Stigma

By RUBY YU Sun Contributor

Today marks the start of the first Mental Health Awareness Week, which lasts until Oct. 23 and will feature events around campus designed to promote the awareness and understanding of mental health issues.

“I feel like a lot of students are afraid to come out of their comfort zones and talk about mental health, especially with Cornell’s atmosphere, but they need to know that people are going to help them,” said Maria Chak ’18, one of the week’s organizers and Student Assembly vice president of outreach.

The week kicks off with a talk by Frank Warren, also known as “The Most Trusted

Stranger in America” and the founder of coordinator for the Cornell Minds Matter PostSecret, a website that posts anonymous e-board. “If you like Humans of New York, submissions of “secrets” sent in from all you should check out PostSecret.”

Mental Health Awareness over the country. PostSecret Week will also include a varibegun in 2005 as an art project ety of events, such as yoga when Warren asked people on the Arts Quad and a to submit their secrets on Willard Straight Hall creatively decorated postexhibit titled “Faces of cards. He has since accuMental Health.” mulated over 1,000,000 According to Tiffany secrets and has compiled Guo ’16, the exhibit feathem into six books. tures portraits of students “Warren has worked and descriptions of with crisis hotlines on college campuses “A lot of students are afraid to ... the struggles they faced. to address mental talk about mental health.”

“We asked stuhealth issues,” said dents to share stoAngelica Cullo ’17, Maria Chak ’18 the large events ries of their person-

al struggles and how they addressed resolving them. Each portrait highlighted their individual experiences,” said Guo, the series event coordinator for Cornell Minds Matter. “I think this is a great way for students to speak out about mental issues and encourage others to do so as well.”

Mental Health Awareness Week will come to a close with an event called “Dining with Diverse Minds” on next Friday, which will bring an estimated 150 students, faculty and staff together in an active discussion about mental health issues. Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, will be speaking about mental health in relation to higher education at the event.

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Quotes of the Week Opinion, “The Pursuit of True Nobility,” Wednesday Talking about how often people are unable to seek help when they need to “Not everyone is so upfront about what they are dealing with all the time and as a result may not get the support they need and deserve.”

Christo Eliot grad News, “Elizabeth Garret Defends Freedom of Speech,” Wednesday Speaking about trigger warnings in college courses “A university is about the fullest and freest expression of ideas and arguments. There isn’t any idea that ought not to be tested and questioned. Because that’s how we get closer to the truth. We’re about reason, rationality, debate. So if you disagree with someone, the answer isn’t to shut them down.”

President Elizabeth Garrett

News, “First American on Death Row Exonerated by DNA Addresses Students,” Thursday Discussing why police initially found him suspicious when investigating a murder “I can explain that. They kept trying to look at my shoes, and I was jittery because I had a bag of weed in my shoe — right between my sock and my shoe. I had nothing to do with this [murder], I just didn’t want them to find my weed.

Kirk Bloodsworth News, “Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show,” Thursday Reacting to the report that 96 percent of Cornell faculty political donations fund Democrats “Nationally, economists, chemists, business school professors and engineers are significantly more conservative than professors in social sciences and humanities. Finding 97 percent of Cornell professors giving to Democrats, that’s suprising.”

Prof. Mildred Elizabeth Sanders, government

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EIC of Al Jazeera America Addresses Journalistic Freedom

Amjad Atallah stresses importance of uncensored press, dangers of journalism as part of lecture series

By ALEXA ESKENAZI

This cognitive dissonance led Atallah to pose a question for himself.

“It wasn’t what should the world do, but Amjad Atallah, editor in chief of Al what should I do? What will I need to be Jazeera America, presented “Journalism involved and how do I need to be engaged?”

Under Fire,” a lecture focusing on the he said. importance of journalists and freedom of the These questions led to the development press. The lecture was this year’s installment of Atallah’s professional career working on of The Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press humanitarian and policy issues on Bosnia, series, which has been offered for over a where he realized the importance of journaldecade. ists.

Prof. Michael Jones-Correa, government, “Without the reporting that came out of introduced Atallah, his high school class- Bosnia, it is unclear what would have hapmate. pened. That war continued even after people “Amjad, in his career both at Al Jazeera found out that rape camps and concentraand before, has given a particularly sharp tion camps and death camps were in place,” perspective on free speech and freedom of Atallah said. “But imagine if there hadn’t the press issues, which is the purpose of the been any reporting at all? Or imagine if the Kops lecture,” Jones-Correa said. reporting hadn’t been able to come out?

Before becoming editor in chief, Atallah Would the genocide actually have played served as a regional director of the Americas itself out of its logical conclusion?” for Al Jazeera Media Network and as Bureau Atallah then jumped forward 20 years, Chief of the Americas for Al Jazeera.” saying even after the importance of journalAtallah began by describing his journey ists has been shown, their situation has not through journalism as “eclectic,” saying that gotten better — it has actually gotten worse. he has gotten to his current point based on In this year alone, 48 journalists have been his encounters with journalists at the begin- killed, and 147 journalists are now in prison. ning of his career.

Not only are these numbers startlingly In the 1990s, while Atallah was a study- high to him, they also ring close to home, ing the Holocaust at Atallah said. Three Al the University of Jazeera staff members “Reporters provide a Virginia’s graduate prowere imprisoned in reality check, but not gram in religious studEgypt, accused of being ies, a Newsday reporter part of the Muslim everyone wants you to discovered and pubBrotherhood and know what that reality is.” spreading false news. lished pictures of operating concentration The three were then Amjad Atallah camps in Yugoslavia. placed on trial without This led to an uproar any substantial evidence of journalists reporting on the death camps. against them, according to Atallah. They Amjad said what shocked people around the were held in maximum-security prison and world, including himself, the most was that subsequently solitary confinement until it had already gone on for so long without their eventual release. any global knowledge or news coverage.

In response to the detainment of its own “When I heard from all of these reporters journalists, Al Jazeera started the “Journalism … and then I would go to class and have an is not a crime” campaign, in hopes of raising academic conversation and discussion about awareness of violations of Press Freedom and World War II, I was having a real problem in support of all journalists, primarily in the with cognitive dissonance,” Atallah said. “I Middle East, according to Atallah. could not believe that these things could When taking into account all the other happen again and again and again despite all injustices facing civilians in the Middle East, the slogans about it happening never again.” Atallah said he was aware that it might seem

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The pen is mightier... | Amjad Atallah, editor in chief of Al Jazeera America, delivers the 2015 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture in Goldwin Smith Hall Thursday.

self-centered of journalists to demand so much attention to themselves. However, Atallah said he recognized “a correlation between attacks on journalists and the greater crimes that are taking place around them on the stories they are trying to cover” and cited this as an effect of journalism’s main role as a check on power.

“Journalism exists to be able to hold all power centers to account, whether they’re corporate, whether they’re financial, whether they’re governmental,” Atallah said.

“Governments and militaries know this.

They also know that if they can control the narrative, and if they can deny the story from getting out, they know that they can actually push their agenda a bit further.

Reporters provide a reality check, but not everyone wants you to know what that reality is.”

Atallah made the distinction that censorship of journalists is not only occurring in the Middle East and is not just the literal detainment of journalists. He pointed to public pressure being just as detrimental and a very strong form of journalistic censorship, “especially in times of national distress,” and raised the issue of censorship in the United States.

Atallah cited The New York Times’

response to the United States Pentagon’s first guidelines on its interpretation of the law of war, which it stated was a direct threat to journalists. “’Journalists,’ the manual says, ‘are generally regarded as civilians, but may in some instances be deemed unprivileged belligerents’, i.e. that journalists would have less rights than a soldier from the enemy side that was captured,” Atallah said. “’The manual warns that reporting on military operations can be very similar to correcting intelligence or even spying… Governments may need to censor journalists’ work or take other security measures so that journalists do not reveal sensitive information to the enemy.’”

The censorship and attacks on journalists affect much more than the news industry, Atallah said. He stressed that these attacks are used to intimidate the rest of the population, “making other violence that much easier to perpetrate,” and that journalists must be defended.

“Imagine if every newscast was delivered by lobbyists,” Atallah said. “That world is not that far away. We always have to struggle against it.”

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at ame63@cornell.edu.

Apprentice Contestant Koutsomitis’09 Commends Hotel School

By ANNE SNABES

Additionally, Koutsomitis also coordinates events such as wine tastings, that allow professionals to Vana Koutsomitis ’09 appeared meet each other.

“My main focus in business is in BBC’s reality television show The Apprentice Wednesday. connecting people,” Koutsomitis Koutsomitis, currently the CEO of said. “In a globalized world, like financial services network The the one we live in today, it’s imporCity Street and a hotel school tant to connect people across borgraduate, praised her alma mater ders, and to be able to make those in an interview with The Sun, say- connections in a cross cultural way.” ing that it provided W h i l e her a global perspecKoutsomitis began tive and valuable her studies at Cornell learning experiences. in the College of Koutsomitis, who Human Ecology, she viewers will be able to transferred into the see compete in a variSchool of Hotel ety of tasks during the Administration after current season of the a semester because show, could potentialshe said she believed ly earn a business KOUTSOMITIS ’09 the school would partnership with billionaire Alan Sugar if she is provide students with a practical degree. Additionally, she transdeclared the ultimate winner. ferred because she said her parents A social media entrepreneur who currently lives in Barcelona, were architects who had been Spain, Koutsomitis said she aims involved in hospitality projects to create connections among before.

“I had been exposed to hospifinancial professionals. Her comtality and I really liked it,” pany, The City Street, provides a platform that standardizes the pro- Koutsomitis said.

During her time at Cornell, files of different business people.

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Koutsomitis discovered that she wanted to work on an international scale. As a result, Koutsomitis studied abroad in Shanghai and, after graduating from college, lived in the United Kingdom.

Koutsomitis also said she comes from a multicultural family, as her father is Greek and her mother is Colombian.

“I think it’s really important to explore different cultures and learn about people from different places,” Koutsomitis said.

As a student, Koutsomitis participated in Hotel Ezra Cornell, an event where hotel students manage a weekend-long hotel conference.

Koutsomitis said another influential part of her Cornell experience were her classes. Those classes included Introduction to Wines, a course that has helped her in her current pursuits that includes the development of a new wine brand from France, called Vino by Vana.

Koutsomitis said another influential Cornell class was a seminar called Quality Brewing and Fine Beer. According to Koutsomitis, Prof. Giuseppe Pezzotti, hotel administration, presented a global perspective that she appreciated.

“It was important to always look at the global and always look at the international viewpoint as opposed to just seeing the national point of view, ” Koutsomitis said.

“I just thought the overall Hotelie

experience was very strong, and I really enjoyed the community feel that it had.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at acs328@cornell.edu.

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Student Assembly Votes in Favor of Increasing Cinema Funding CINEMA

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“I found my experience at Cornell Cinema to be touching to such an extent that I changed my path entirely,” McLaren said.

Speaking to The Sun, McLaren added that in the 10 years since he has been involved with Cornell Cinema, screenings have decreased in frequency and financial support from University administration has been weakening.

Members of the Appropriations Committee argued that strategic funding cuts must be made to allow for newer organizations to receive funding and that internally restructuring the cinema’s operations would alleviate some of the cinema’s financial problems without requiring increased

S.A. funding.

However, McLaren said that a decrease in funding from the College of Arts and Sciences after the college restructured its budget has already put more pressure on Cornell Cinema.

“We’re trying everything that we can to bump up revenue,” McLaren said. “A healthy line item is our film rental and our filmmaker events and at some point we’ll have to cut those down. Our overhead [costs are] pretty high, and our discretionary spending is on the screenings and the events, so there’s not a lot of wiggle room.”

McLaren explained that the cinema compromised with Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’69 to prevent the cinema’s property rental costs from rising, but because student organizations are now permitted to

use the cinema’s facilities on some weekends, Cornell Cinema is often unable to screen films on its most lucrative days.

Although the S.A. increased its funding allocations for Cornell Cinema, the cinema still faces financial strain, according to McLaren. The Cornell Cinema will meet with the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the University administration to advocate for more funding, according to McLaren.

“I’m hopeful that we will see some increase in support from the graduate students,” McLaren said. “They, like the S.A., have indicated that they do value Cornell Cinema and I think that is very heartening to hear.”

McLaren said because the cinema continues to lose money every year, further financial support from the S.A. would help

alleviate pressure as the cinema negotiates with the University administration.

According to McLaren, if Cornell Cinema cannot secure financial support from the GPSA or the University administration, the Cinema will need to rely on donations from alumni and further S.A. funding.

“We will definitely have to increase our alumni relations and go back to the S.A., and I know that’s the last thing they want to hear. If everyone else is shutting the door on us, it’s [the S.A.] or bust,” McLaren said. “I am very hopeful that with this new administration we can try to work something out.”

Brian Eng can be reached at bwe22@cornell.edu.

S.A. Launches Mental Health Week Today MENTAL HEALTH Continued from page 1

The event is being co-sponsored by over 25 student organizations, with an estimated cost between $12,000 and $15,000, according to Matt Indimine ’18, a principal organizer of Mental Health Awareness Week and cochair of the S.A. Health and Wellness Committee. Most of the money is allocated to hosting Frank Warren’s talk and for providing food at the various events, although some companies, such as Insomnia Cookies, have agreed to make donations.

“We’ve been planning this since May,” Indimine said.

A variety of organizations including the African, Latino, Asian and Native American Programming Board, Cornell Minds Matter and many others are collaborating to make the week a success and reduce the stigma associated with seeking help.

“Mental health issues affect everyone in a different way, which is why there are so many organizations involved,” Indimine explained.

Another one of Mental Health Awareness Week’s main objectives is to promote available resources on campus such as Counseling and Psychological Services at Gannett, Let’s Talk and EARS. For Carolina Bieri ’16, co-chair of the S.A. Health and Wellness Committee, Mental Health Awareness Week is important because students sometimes neglect their well-being.

“I think that people on this campus ignore their personal health far too often — most notably their mental health — and if we can get people to think how they’re taking care of themselves, even just a little more often, then we’ve accomplished something,” Bieri said.

Mental Health Awareness Week was approved and sponsored by the S.A. following the passage of Resolution 6: “Mental Health Week Recognition.” The resolution cites multiple reasons supporting the perceived necessity of the promotion of mental health awareness, such as the fact that 1,100 college students die each year by suicide, which is the third leading cause of death among youth.

Ruby Yu can be reached at rjy32@cornell.edu.

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the University’s Climate Action Plan which aims for a carbon-neutral Cornell by 2035.

Shalloway said he hopes the presentation will start a discussion within the Board of Trustees. He added that he does not believe that the trustees has discussed the issue in the two years since the divestment campaign began.

“As far as we know, this [discussion] has never happened in the two years of fossil-fuel divestment resolutions,” Shalloway said. “We are asking them to seriously consider this request with discussion by the entire Board and for the entire Board to vote to whether or not to accept this shared governance request.”

While he does not expect the trustees to vote on the issue right away, Shalloway said he hopes that the Board of Trustees will not push the issue aside by moving it to a subcommittee.

“I believe that their immediate schedule is full, but we ask that they discuss this and then vote on it in full group as soon as possible and not relegate the issue just to subcommittee,” Shalloway said.

In the past, critics of divestment have cited financial risk as a reason to oppose divestment. However,

according to Shalloway, representatives from the shared governance assemblies met with the administrators in the Office of University Investment last month and learned that if the University had divested from fossil fuels from 2006 to 2015, the divestment would have saved the University $47 million.

“We believe the financial issue is a ‘red herring’ — the amount to be divested is actually quite small — and hope that the Board will focus on more important issue of our moral integrity,” Shalloway said.

He added that he hopes the Board of Trustees will take action on the matter and that Cornell can emerge as a leader among the Ivy League in regards to climate action.

“I hope that Cornell will do everything it can to become the ‘Green Ivy’ — a national and international thought leader on sustainability and climate action. This will require pairing our Climate Action Plan and green Tech Campus actions with visible public education and leadership actions such as fossil-fuel divestment,” Shalloway said. “It will be good for our students, the world and our reputation.”

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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lot of discussion has taken place recently about the merits of “trigger warnings” in academic environments. We can see that students, professors and administrators are all now part of an important conversation which deals with trauma and its role in the classroom. Some are fans of trigger warnings. Others, like President Elizabeth Garrett (to reporters at the Cornell Club), say that “there shouldn’t be any limits on the substance of freedom of speech at a university.”

And on a tangential note, any casual observer of the Cornellian social media scene will also see that a related division of opinions has happened on the oh-so-exciting “Overheard” group. The typical incident usually goes like this: A makes a joke in poor taste. B and C tell A why that joke is wrong and why A should not have said it. A, D and E defend A, saying B and C are too sensitive and, hey, aren’t we in America where A can say whatever A wants and wouldn’t you just say that everyone’s triggered by everything these days? The conversation inevitably turns to Hitler, and it eventually ends with the hand of God blocking out the sun and the seventh seal being opened.

Jokes aside, it’s obvious how these concerns about humor and trauma relate to one another. It’s also pretty apparent, to me at least, how improperly we mobilize the rhetoric of free speech and censorship to defend a lack of attention to trauma and power in the works of art taught in the classroom, or to the jokes we make — an art themselves — amongst one another everyday.

A trigger warning in this context functions as an alert. It lets a student or participant know that the class will deal with content potentially related to traumatic personal experiences. That way, if the student realizes that they have not prepared themselves mentally or emotionally for encounters with the remnant memories of their trauma, they might find

some way to deal with this dilemma on their own terms, as opposed to any unexpected interactions with material that could recall past pains or sufferings.

We have responsibilities as students to question what we hear, even when it’s coming from students themselves. To do so, we

have to divorce the trigger warning — as well as the criticisms of offensive or irreverent humor — from Orwellian laments about the First Amendment and liberal society. In terms of art, trigger warnings deal with a single person’s experience of a work of art which tries to grapple with trauma. Censorship, on the other hand, does not concern trauma. It is about art and ide-

Stephen Meisel Appearances ology. Specifically it is about whether or not a work of art aligns with the opinions of those in power.

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Cathedral, three members of the punk group Pussy Riot were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” condemned by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church and sentenced to time in a Russian penal colony.

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you’re hearing — turns into a genuine lifeor-death issue in these circumstances. It goes beyond whether or not someone has the freedom to speak their mind or express themselves. It becomes a problem of how political powers can decide their own truth and maintain its sanctity. Essentially, it is an effort from those in power to safeguard the integrity of their ideas. In politics, that is often a matter of life or death.

To compare this action and its manifestations to that of the “trigger warning” is to have a gross misunderstanding of both. Student victims of trauma are not throwing their professors in prison for twenty years. They are not asking other students to stop making jokes about sexual assault because those jokes are politically rebellious or ideologically subversive. They are not blacklisting them or making them the subject of religious condemnations.

A trigger warning is not an issue COURTESY OF PUSSY RIOT of truth. It is an issue of respect and maturity. There are students in every university who know very well what the “real world” is like. Every maker Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 day they quietly keep to themselves the cruyears in prison, after a trial which was, elty and pain this world has shown them. I according to one observer, “redolent of recommend that universities stop making it Stalinist-era show trials of dissidents.” He seem like these people serve a kind of liberwas accused of planning terrorism. al, anti-American regime. In a way, they are These two events are instances of censor- saying that students may make whatever ship. They are not someone policing jokes demands they want. The university simply about spelling, or someone asking that we does not care about our own personal relatry to not make light of the dangers which tionships with academics and arts. The have become so common in the lives of so politically and emotionally vital connection many people. They are meant to punish and between a college-educated individual and silence expressions of an aberrant ideology ideas — something the Truth-loving univerwhich the current political regime has sity is supposed to cultivate in all of its studeemed subversive or undesirable. If we dents — is in big trouble. want to look at that good ol’ Everyone, not just the lamenting adminEnlightenment-era notion of Truth that istrators, will have a larger problem to deal these “free-speech” advocates seem to adore with then, when we stop caring about what so much, we have a problem here, right? We the truth means to every person and only have the people in power neutering the dia- care about what a single definition of the logue and forbidding distasteful ideas with truth entails. the threat of imprisonment, possibly for life. This is definitely a reprehensible thing Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of to do, especially so when the consequences Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at are that dire. Suppression of political dis- smeisel@cornellsun.com. Appearances runs sent — simply because you don’t like what alternate Fridays this semester.

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— Chris Stanton “I’ve seen dynamite on the streets,” narrates Killer Mike on the intro to rap duo Run the Jewels’ new single, “Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite).” The voiceover gives way to an absolutely spastic instrumental courtesy of Little Shalimar, as Killer Mike and El-P, his partner in mayhem, get to work doing what they do best. Each of the spry 40-year-old MCs struggled for years to make a name for themselves, earning underground credibility in their respective hometowns of Brooklyn and Atlanta, while largely failing to captivate wider audiences. After meeting each other in 2011, El-P agreed to produce an entire album for Killer Mike (entitled R.A.P. Music).

Their chemistry proved so undeniable that the two rappers toured together before recording their first album as a duo, 2013’s Run the Jewels. While mildly popular, the album’s success was easily eclipsed by 2014’s Run the Jewels 2, a project that launched the duo into a new stratosphere of popularity and critical acclaim. Their underdog story makes every RTJ song feel simultaneously like a riot and a victory lap, as the bombastic production clashes with alternately political and braggadocio rhymes.

“Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)” does not break the successful RTJ mold, nor is it a great song in comparison to some of the better cuts off RTJ2. Still, as a nonalbum single (it features on the soundtrack to the new documentary Rubble Kings) it’s a welcomed appetizer for next year’s RTJ3. Mike and El-P each fit in some great bars, playing off the anti-institution tropes that made “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” arguably the best rap song of last year. Over the hectic vocal loop that provides the beat’s backbone, El-P refers to himself and Killer Mike as “wolves to the bitter finish,” a declaration that could very well be the group’s mission statement.

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Olga Bell “Rubbernecker” One Little Indian

— Jael Goldfine

Olga Bell is a student both of classical piano, composition and songwriting, and of the indie rock tradition. The prodigy and graduate of the New England Conservatory toured with synth-pop powerhouses Dirty Projectors and Chairlift from 2011 to 2013, and most recently released her folkloric record Krai, inspired by her Russian roots. The fusion of her obvious mastery of composition, with her consciousness of an indie pop sound has gifted us with her eviscerating and tender new single “Rubbernecker.”

However, in rejection of the chirpy, playful tunes of her previous indie-pop appointments, there’s nothing jaunty about “Rubbernecker.” The tune is an undeniable heartbreak track. Beginning with Bell’s nectar-like vocals over soft melancholy piano, she begs, “Please don’t tell me it’s an omen”; her voice, getting more powerful with every measure, interspersed with electronic taps and shimmering swells of synths.

The bass gets deeper and bigger, and her voice becomes less melodic and predictable, dissonantly reminiscent of St. Vincent or Björk. Suddenly the track violently crescendoes like a punch to the gut, the orchestral swell almost overpowering Bell’s throbbing, resilient cry: “Don’t worry about a rain check with me.”

She tricked us into listening to some sweetsad synth pop, and then ambushes us with this feminine orchestral tsunami of contempt and heartbreak — like an art-pop P!nk or Gwen Stefani. Evaporating as quickly as it came, the ephemeral sonic assault quiets as if we had just been fiddling with the volume dial. Leaving us with a lump in our throats, she sings, her voice breathy and cracking, “So call me careless, call me rash, but please don’t tell me that I should feel lucky to walk away.”

“Rubbernecker” is an exhausting track; a hurricane — the volatile storm and cease of her vocals paralleling a certain messy romantic turmoil we’re all familiar with. Luckily for us, though, her pain makes for a gorgeous song and a study in electronic production. Perhaps if “Rubbernecker” is lacking in any capacity, it is just slightly over-varnished, and perhaps a little slack, or roughness would have been refreshing.

However, I’m definitely not complaining. Olga Bell can serenade my romantic angst any time.

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o my mother: When I was little To the cafeteria employee who swiped and I cried, you wouldn’t hold my I.D. card: I went back through the me. You said you’d talk to me line to buy another cookie, and I was when I was ready to be calm, when I worried that you would remember it was could be logical. I don’t cry much any- my second one. You help so many peomore. I wonder if you taught me to use ple every day; do we all blur together for my head and not my heart. To my you, like a mosaic that you can only see friend across the world: You don’t know when you step back? To my first college how badly I want to get on a plane and friend: I thought you were dead boring, see the Google image results in person. because you never left our dorm room. I These days, I think I am living through thought you were hiding from advena screen. To the person who fell during ture, when really, your adventure just yoga class: It’s okay, balance is really looked different than mine. You taught hard. To my cousin: Thank you for me that boring is a relative term. To my reminding me that the first thing I do landlord: When we first moved in, the after graduation doesn’t have to be what bathroom mirror was cracked. I got so I want to do forever. Sometimes I forget used to it that when it was finally that life is a novel and not a haiku; it replaced, I was still looking for a fault doesn’t have to be resolved in the first line that no longer existed. seventeen syllables.

To my brother: I will trade you my To my father: You taught me to bal- blueprints for the future if you give me ance a checkbook. You taught me how your ability to float through life, living to calculate interest and make a budget in the moment. To the waitress who forand save for the future. got to charge me for So I never had to rely my food: Thank you on anyone else finanfor reminding me Look around. cially, you said. I’m how often I am Everyone in your life lucky, and what else afraid what I heard was, don’t let anyone have been given for is there because they Ifree. else count. To my To the girl with roommate: it’s fill up some little part allergies in my October, and I still English class: Your of you that nobody haven’t eaten any of mouth breathing your food while you reminds me that I’ve else does. Whether been were out. Do you know breathing too how much willpower they are romantic or — that I am living, that took? To my childand I have barely platonic or familial or noticed. To the only hood neighbor: My mother said I should person I’ve ever simply in the past, ask you how you’re walked away from: doing at school. I told they give a small part You used to tease her I already know; I because I mixed of themselves to you. me, can see your posts up my left from my online. You look really right. Even on my happy. But I wonder, driver’s test, I had to when did it become a waste of time to make giant L’s with my hands; it was the ask? one thing I couldn’t remember. I want To the man who sold me my car: you to know, I finally got it. I left You left eight dollars in quarters in the because it wasn’t right.

To you, dear reader: Look around. glove compartment. I parked on your dime (or quarter, I guess) for two Everyone in your life is there because months. To my professor: You asked us they fill up some little part of you that at the beginning of the semester to nobody else does. Whether they are write down one hope and one fear. You romantic or platonic or familial or simpassed out index cards, so we could ply in the past, they give a small part of write on both sides. I’m fairly certain themselves to you. They are a lesson you you meant semester goals, but mine can’t look up in a textbook. Some of were not so temporary. On one side, I them you can’t choose, but often, you was afraid I would speak superficially dictate who you interact with. Ask yourto others, because the real conversa- self: Who are the people around you; tions are only happening inside my what are they doing? What do they have head. On the other, I hoped I was you saying, thinking, becoming? You being honest with myself. To the fresh- started as a million little Legos. Are they man who looked panicked: You told building you into somebody you want to me you enrolled in 22 credits and you be? were drowning. Yes, the river of college Ruth Weissmann is a junior in the College of Agriculture rises fast. But sometimes a flood is the and Life Sciences. She can be reached at raw287@coronly way the soil lets anything new nell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears alternate Thursdays this semester. grow.

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recurring joke my friends and I make is chanting “STEM” at random times. An acronym standing for science, technology, engineering and math, STEM represents the career fields many Cornell students will likely pursue after graduation. I will not be one of those students, and I’m honestly not too sure how I feel about it.

Currently I am double majoring in

internship plans almost everyday. On Monday, my best friend got an internship offer from Apple. On Wednesday, another one of my friends got a summer offer from Verizon.

Humanities majors aren’t necessarily expected to get big name internships, but that doesn’t calm my anxieties about the future. I find myself questioning my choices almost every-

Currently I am double majoring in art history and performing media arts, two subjects most Cornelians would probably call hobbies before they would call them majors. My life wasn’t always so devoid of STEM, though.

LIBE LOVIN’ The barista who works the 8 a.m. shift at Libe now knows my coffee order. I cannot tell if this is romantic or sad because it means that I’m in Olin at 8 a.m. far too frequently.

— S.W. STATS STRUGS I’m taking a statistics class and it is not going well. Ironically, I now understand how bad I am doing thanks to my newfound understanding of what being “more than one standard deviation below the mean” really is.

— M.L. POTATO PROBLEMS There used to be a potato bar in Terrace, but they got rid of it.

Now how am I supposed to reconnect with my Irish roots?

— S.M. BOUNCER FRIEND Today I saw the Level B bouncer out of context and I stared at him for a few minutes before realizing how I knew him.

I know him because he always rejects my ID. I hope he doesn’t think I was trying to stare him down. Whoops.

— R.S. JEALOUS OF YOU I always have an overwhelming urge to push everyone riding to class on one of those motorized wheels off of those stupid contraptions. Partly I’m jealous, but mostly I’m curious as to what would

happen ... does the space wheel have an air bag? Why aren’t you whearing a helmet? Can I have a ride?

— U.G. GRUMPY SWUG I’m sad that I’m graduating mostly because I’ll miss Apple Fest and the cute instagrams I got every year from the event.

— A.F. SEXUAL TENSION The worst part about all of these internship networking events is running into — and sometimes being forced to network with — your ex-hookups (and their friends). I wish the freshman version of myself had given this more consideration.

— A.B. SWEATPANTS If wearing sweatpants to class is wrong, I don't want to be right.

— S.L. HIPSTER HOTTIE Why is Temple of Zeus the new “it spot?” I liked it first.

— M.Z. IT ’S MY BIRTHDAY, AND I’LL SLEEP IF I WANT TO Today is my 21st birthday. But it’s raining outside, and I’ve had a really long week. My friends are peer pressuring me to do this thing called “drinking,” but honestly, all I want to do is sleep next to a bottle of pink moscato.

— A.T.B.

art history and performing media arts, two subjects most Cornelians would probably call hobbies before they would call them majors. My life wasn’t always so devoid of STEM, though. I came into Cornell pre-med.

My parents are doctors and my brother is in medical school, so it just made sense for me to follow the same path. I was never really even asked what career path I wanted to pursue.

Medicine was always the assumption, the safe path that would guarantee financial certainty and therefore lifelong happiness.

There are a lot of reasons I decided to quit the pre-med path. Not to sound arrogant, but it wasn’t because I couldn’t do it. My GPA probably wasn’t going to get me into Yale Medical, but I could have gotten into a middle tier medical school as long as I did fine on the MCAT. My resume was tailor made for medical school, but I was not.

I chose to abandon the pre-med track because of the same reasons I chose it in the first place. It meant nothing more to me than a definite source of income. I saw it as a way to please my parents, but not something I could ever see myself happily doing. I realized I was doing it for all the wrong reasons, so I finished organic chemistry and bowed out. So, now what?

Nearly all my friends are pursuing degrees in engineering or financerelated subjects. I hear about their

day. Although I have all the passion in the world for art and cinema, I cannot help but ask myself if I made a mistake by dropping out of the pre-med track.

As an art history major, my career prospects are simultaneously slim and broad. Plenty of art history majors have made it big in completely unrelated industries, such as marketing and finance. However, for every one success story, there exist thousands of not-so-happy endings.

I find myself wanting to be like my friends everyday. I want to secure an internship offer at a Fortune 500 company that will later offer me a full time job upon graduation. I have plenty of applications open on my laptop, but I find it difficult to press the send button. Will these companies take me seriously as a non-STEM major? Does my major automatically disqualify me?

Regret is universal. We all make mistakes, but it’s sort of relieving to see your mistake fully realized. I seem to be somewhere in the middle right now. Should I have quit pre-med earlier and switched to AEM? Only time will tell. Until then, I suppose I will continue to deal with any anxiety I have about the future. At least I can study something I care about in the meantime.

Akshay Jain is a student in the College of Arts and Sciences. College Stuff appears alternate Fridays this semester. He may be reached at aj265@cornell.edu.

CORRECTIONS An Oct. 15 news story, “Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show” misidentified Cornell Republicans Chairman Mark LaPointe '16.

An Oct. 15 news story, “Garrett Continues Administrative Shake-Up; Arts and Sciences Adds Education Innovation Director,” incorrectly indicated that the appointment of Peter Lepage as the College of Arts and Sciences’ first director of education innovation was part of President Elizabeth Garrett’s administrative shake-up. In fact, Lepage’s appointment was made internally within the college. Additionally, the article incorrectly stated that Lepage will be “returning” to the college, when in fact he is already a tenured faculty member.

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he life of a college athlete: You have to perform well and you have to balance this with an acceptable GPA. Practice isn’t optional. You must devote multiple hours each day to progressing; this means no going backwards. Expectations are always rising. You must stay in shape, stay focused, stay healthy.

Outside the bubble of athletics that blends college life with the rest of the world are all of the pressures marked by media and the rest of society. They say, mostly to females, to look a certain way. To be thin.

And they seem to love you a little more if you’re skeletal.

Eating disorders are real, and they are dangerous and frightening. Perhaps starting out as a seed of a thought inside a perMind Games son’s mind, they generate dire medical concerns.

Eating disorders are most common in sports that have weight requirements, emphasize appearance or are endurance sports.

Generally, this is also true for sports that focus on the individual. In 1992, the American College of Sports Medicine published the statistic that 62 percent of athletes participating in sports like figure skating and gymnastics develop eating disorders. It’s especially hard for these athletes when they reach puberty. They must adjust their techniques to account for their changing bodies, but for many this translates into pushing to lose weight and return to their pre-pubescent size.

I talked to two Cornell athlete about the pressures they feel. I have changed both of their names to protect their privacy.

Aidan said he was able to turn the extra competitive pressures into something positive. It’s a life skill to be able to react and perform under pressure. However, it isn’t always so easy. His coaches try to take the pressure off and stress that running competitively is “just a race.” Still, he has seen teammates here and elsewhere change the way they eat and be encouraged to lose weight by their coaches.

Sometimes this escalates to the point of obsession.

Lily says, “Being an athlete, people expect you to look a certain way.” They expect to see someone in shape, who looks fit and muscular. It’s an extra standard to live up to.

In high school, I remember hearing friends on the lightweight crew team talk about how they couldn’t eat for days before weighing in, that an extra pound added could jeopardize all that they’ve worked for. I would see skaters skinny as twigs complaining that they were fat in the mirrors of the locker room.

These things don’t always start off so obviously. There’s a hazy line between intense athletic training and obsessive compulsive exercising. Psychiatrist Kimberly Dennis has even noted that denial has been somewhat ingrained in athletes as they have to overcome physical limits daily. Denial mixed with perfectionism can create this perfect storm in the development of eating disorders.

Many athletes believe that controlling their calorie intake can help them overcome challenges, but this can have the opposite effect. World-renowned figure skater Jenny Kirk said, “There are so many things in skating that a competitor can’t control, particularly the judging, and I felt that if I were a certain weight, I would feel more in control of all those external variables. What really happened, though, is that the disorder started to control me, and it took over my life.” Control is a wonderful thing we like to think we have. But when we give control to unhealthy thoughts, we can lose ourselves to them.

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Jessica Brofsky is a second year hot columnist. She can be contacted at jbrosky@cornellsun.com. Mind Games appears alternating Fridays this semester.

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The Cornell men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams will be in action this weekend at the Head of the Charles Regatta. The event, held annually on Boston’s Charles River, will feature some of the best rowing teams from around the world. Cornell will square off against other college teams and several national teams.

“National teams are always a nice benchmark and this race will help us gauge what we are capable of doing this year,” said heavyweight senior captain Gregory Davis.

Cornell will compete in the 4+ and 8+ championships. Both the heavyweight and lightweight teams have a lot of experienced rowers, so they are hoping for quality results. Senior rowers constitute a large part of each team.

Although Cornell rowing has high expectations for this season, the Head of the Charles Regatta will help the teams gain a sense of where they stand for the rest of the season.

“Our team has a lot of power.

We want to be really competitive and are looking for a strong result,” said heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett.

The Charles River will present several challenges for the team.

“The course is quite long and leaves room for error at every turn,” said sophomore coxswain Nikhil Chuchra. “The river twists and turns both to the left and right throughout the course, which makes it difficult to navigate.”

“It is probably the most technical race out there,” said lightweight head coach Chris Kerber.

The Boston schools will be favorites to place well in the race.

Having experience on the river provides an advantage and knowing the turns could shave seconds off of race time. The Regatta follows a race-against-the-clock format rather than a head to head format. Coach Kerber noted that team will not know how well they’ve placed until every team crosses the finish line.

The Head of the Charles is anyone’s race, but Harvard is always quick,” Chuchra said. “The Charles is their home course, making coxswains more savvy with its turns and course in general, and making rowers more comfortable with its conditions.”

Both the heavyweight and lightweight teams are hoping to produce a strong performance in the fall season, which will give the team confidence for the spring.

“This year we have the talent to make huge strides during the spring, so we need to race like it in

the fall,” Chuchra said.

For the lightweight team, most of their races take place in the spring. The fall season is used to figure out what combinations work well and to determine what improvements need to be made for the spring.

“Our fall preparation is about building the foundation of physical stamina,” Kerber said. “We have three races in the fall so our time is spent on development for the spring racing season.”

Regardless of the result, the Head of the Charles Regatta will be a special experience for the Cornell rowers.

“When you have 250,000 fans from over 700 clubs and universities descending on the Charles, you have an event like no other,” Kerber said.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

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Women Ready to Row at Head of the Charles Prepare for first major race of the year

WOMEN’S ROWING

By ANNA FASMAN

front of us. We can also see the team behind us so our goal is to push away from them and make the margin between This weekend, the women’s rowing us larger.” team will head to Cambridge to compete According to senior Ellen Barrett, the in the Head of the Charles, the world’s Charles is a challenging course. The team largest two-day rowing event. While the has to prepare to face rough water and NCAA season does not begin for the Red wind, as well as a large group of strong until the spring, the squad still has a competitors. Nonetheless, the team is group of races this fall, with the Head of excited for the event and the challenges it the Charles being the first and arguably brings.

“The Charles is an exciting event and experience unlike any “The opportunity to race at the Charles other race,” said head coach Liz is something that motivates the athletes Dennison. “The opportunity to race at the Charles is something all summer.” that motivates the athletes all summer. The coaches set stanLiz Dennison dards for the team to hit in order to attend the race this most important. year, and the athletes were able to hit However, there are some key differ- them early on this fall. The athletes … ences between races in the fall and have had some great practices leading spring. The biggest difference is that the into the weekend. Our fall break served fall races are much longer — a 5,000 them well with respect to recovery, both meter course compared to just a 2,000 mentally and physically.” meter course later this year. Therefore, In preparation for the race, the the Head of the Charles is really a place women have been focusing on their varfor the Red to show off its stamina and sity eight boat, as well as mixing and endurance, rather than focusing on its matching different combinations of sprint abilities. women in the smaller boats in order to “The mentality is to listen, to stay see who meshes well together and what focused on what is going on inside our works best for the team overall. In terms boat and [to] stay together,” said senior of workout routine, the women have Kelly Albanir. “The Charles is a really been practicing six days a week both out exciting event and there is a lot going on on the lake, on the erg and in the weight that could easily distract us, so we stay room. internally focused and listen to our “Between doing pieces, seat racing coxswain for updates. She will tell us if and watching video, we are feeling pretty we are closing the margin on the team in prepared,” Barrett said.

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Full speed ahead | The Red will begin competitive racing this weekend in Cambridge, where they will take on some of the best rowers in the nation.

In terms of overall goals, the Red is mainly looking to get faster on the water before coming inside for winter training.

The fall season goes by fast so the team must make use of every outdoor practice it has. Gaining momentum and speed in the fall ideally carries over into the spring, when the team will be competing in NCAA races.

“Fall racing is very different from spring racing, so it is a good chance to get in a lot of meters to gain fitness,” Albanir said. “It also gives the coaches a chance to try out different combinations in boats — in the spring, we can only row on the water once it becomes liquid again which tends to be a few days before our first race. A few days is not enough

time to completely make up a new, effective, tested combination in a boat, so the fall is a good chance to try out possible line ups.”

Dennison also explained that the squad remains focused on future races, such as the Princeton Chase.

“The entire team is focusing on the Princeton Chase, which is on Nov. 1, where we will race our full squad against the other top DI rowing programs in the country,” Dennison said. “Our fall program and racing is focused on building a base from which to work to be our fastest come May at our championship races.”

Anna Fasman can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ANNA FASMAN

JOON LEE

CORNELL V. SACRED HEART

S. HEART

S. HEART

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

S. HEART

CORNELL

CORNELL

S. HEART

CORNELL

CORNELL

YALE V. MAINE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

MAINE

MAINE

HARVARD V. LAFAYETTE

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

PENN V. COLUMBIA

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

BROWN V. PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

BENGALS V. BILLS

BENGALS

BENGALS

BILLS

BENGALS

BENGALS

BENGALS

BENGALS

BENGALS

BILLS

BENGALS

BENGALS

VIKINGS V. CHIEFS

CHEIFS

VIKINGS

CHEIFS

CHEIFS

CHEIFS

VIKINGS

CHIEFS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

PATRIOTS V. COLTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

STEELERS V. CARDINALS

STEELERS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

STEELERS

CARDINALS

STEELERS

GIANTS V. EAGLES

GIANTS

GIANTS

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

GIANTS

GIANTS

EAGLES

LAST WEEK

5-5

8-2

5-5

7-3

3-7

9-1

8-2

7-3

4-6

8-2

8-2

TOTAL

24-16

29-11

23-17

26-14

22-18

26-14

29-11

23-17

15-25

28-12

31-9

ADAM SHANE BRONFIN LEWIS

TYLER ALICEA

ANNIE SLOANE BUI GRINSPOON

JAYNE ZUREK

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